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Re: [privacy] Electronic Passports Raise Privacy Issues
From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 14:03:40 -0500
On Wed, 02 Jan 2008 08:58:12 EST, "Richard M. Smith" said:
The problem with the card, Schwartz said, is that it uses a standard that wasn't meant to track people. "It's not made as an identity document," he said. "The technology they're using was designed to track goods -- pallets of toilet paper at Wal-Mart," he said.
That's only a problem if you see it as a problem....
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